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Edith's Streets

This blog records notes about London (and Greater London) streets - what the buildings are, what the background is. These pages have been compiled over many years and from many sources - its not intended to copy from other people's work.Each post represents a square on the Ordnance Survey grid -and the vast majority of information is culled from map based source material - Ordnance Survey, A/Z, etc.

On some inner city squares only a quarter of each square is done because of the volume of material involved

Please add your comments and corrections - I am sure there are lots of mistakes - and my idea is to build up a correct record interactively

Red- it is (hopefully) there nowBlue - its interesting but its goneNo colour, same as the text - don't know. needs to be verified

Holland House
School. A private ‘preparatory’ school set up in 1974 when a group of parents
bought the school and formed a Trust. Since then it has been rebuilt and
refurbished.

Brook Avenue

The line of this road from Penshurst Road
running south is the line of the Edgwarebury Brook flowing towards Deans Brook.
It then turns north west where it then runs along the west side of Deans Brook.

Campbell Croft

This lane is on the line of the never built
Northern Line Extension. As distinct from the surrounding area, it has post war
houses and bungalows.

Edgware Way (Watford Way)

Completed in 1927 and an enormous amount of
suburban housing followed after its construction

Edgwarebury Lane

The Edgwarebury Brook crosses the road and
there is a bridge structure – the brook going under someone’s garden path

Kings Parade. Art Deco shops

Glendale Avenue

The Edgwarebury Brook cross Glendale Avenue
and disappears under houses.

Hale Lane

The Edgwarebury Brook crosses the road
alongside the library – there is a bridge structure on the road opposite the
library

Posh houses were built from the 1890s
onwards. There was an expansion of the shopping area from the station from 1910 to
1925.

Edgware Adath Yisroel Congregation, This was
Saint James's United Reformed Church. This was founded in 1933 as a
Presbyterian Church of England. The church hall was opened in 1933 but it was
not until 1948 that a transept and new church hall were added and eventually an
extension of the vestry block. The foundation stone was laid in 1950. It was
united with Watling Church and Union Church, to become Trinity United Reformed
Church in 2001 and moved from this site. It is now owned by the Edgware Adath Yisroel
Congregation, and has two synagogue prayer halls, nursery/function hall, and
other facilities

Herons Gate

Houses and garages at the northern end cover
the route of the never built Northern Line extension to Elstree

Mowbray Gardens

Rosh
Pinar Primary School. In 1931 a Hebrew teacher was appointed and Rosh Pinah School was
established by him. The school expanded and in due course the main school has
moved from this site, leaving only the nursery here in the original building.

Edgware United Synagogue. Among the first Jews who moved
into Edgware in 1927 were the Barnett family who searched for other orthodox
Jews in the area. As a result, the Edgware Hebrew Congregation was started. The
community grew and in 1934, aided by a gift of land in Mowbray Road from a
local property developer, a synagogue was built and consecrated in 1934 but
moved in 1957.

Parnell
Close

Edgware United
Synagogue. The community moved her in 1957 from Mowbray Road. There is a team
of volunteers called Edgware Community Cares, there is a Ladies Guild, and Reading
and Craft circles. There are also a Jewish Lads Brigade, Brownies and Guides,
Scouts, Maccabi and BBYO.

Penshurst Gardens

Selection of posh and boring inter war
housing

The road is crossed by the Edgwarebury Brook
near its junction with Station Road and by another tributary to Deans Brook
north of the junction with St.Margarets Road

Prioryfield Drive

This was in the village of Lower Hale in the
18th

Convent of St.Mary at the Cross.Benedictine Community of Sisters of the Poor –
they are however an Anglican order until 1931 known as the Convent of St. Mary of
Nazareth. This was originally founded as a convent and hospital in Shoreditch
in 1865 by the Rev. H. D. Nihill. The sisters moved here in 1873 and became the
centre when Shoreditch closed in 1931. Impressive buildings, by James Brooks. The
priory grounds were built up with private housing in the early 1990s – most of
it with the sort of half-timbering which infests the surrounding area built in
the 1930s. It appears that the remaining buildings are being/been sold off. There are now only a handful of nuns here
but the convent is also home to nuns from Ethiopia (Coptic) and Zimbabwe.

Residential block of 1874. Gothic, in brick with
bold chimneys, linked by a cloister built in 1893 to a chapel.

Chapel – this was intended as the Lady
Chapel of a larger abbey church and the beginnings of stone wall arcading remain.
An addition for lay use was added in 1965-6 by Norman Davey

Hospital blocks and isolation unit, built 1937-41
by Collcutt & Hamp. This became a home for sick and incurable children, who
were taken in up to the age of 18 and then kept for life if they had no other
home.

Mortuary chapel with stained glass and tiles
from the Shoreditch convent.

Henry Nihill House for the Elderly Built in 1990-2.
1990-2, by Woods & Hardwick of Bedford. This is a range with an upper floor
linked by a glazed bridge to the chapel.

Purcells Avenue

The never
built extension to the Northern Line to Elstree would have been severed the
road and a footbridge would have linked the two sides. There are post-war houses adjacent to, and facing Shelley Close that
show where the line was planned to go.

Rectory Lane

Part of Rectory
Lane is a bridge over what was to be the Northern Line extension to Elstree

St.Margaret’s
Parish Hall. Now in use by the Fountain Montessori preschool plus other events.

Scout and
Guide Centre

Friends
Meeting House. This was built with money raised by local Quakers during the
1960s. The building is on the site of a
filled in cutting built for the never finished Elstree extension

Friends
Meeting house car park. This has a wall and notice board. This is thought to be
traces of work done for the never finished
Northern Line extension to Elstree

Shelley Close

This lane is on the line of the never built
Northern Line Extension

Station Road

The extension of the Northern Line to
Elstree would have passed under the road here from the station, there is said
to be space under shops built for the tunnel now used as cellars by them

The Edge of Town. Pub

Sterling
Avenue

This is on the intended route of the never
built Northern Line extension to Elstree,

Stream
Lane

This is the line of the Edgwarebury Brook
flowing towards Deans Brook

The Drive

59a The Drive Tennis Club. 8 tennis courts
behind the houses. The club was founded in 1925